At the end of 2026, the Stockholm Opera will close for a major, multi-billion-dollar renovation that is expected to last until 2032. The artistic activities will be outsourced and the Gasklockan in Norra Djurgårdsstaden in Stockholm will become the temporary home stage of the Royal Opera.
The in-house restaurants and bars – Operakällaren, Operabaren, Bakfickan, Café Opera, Othilia, Vinkällaren, END and Operaterrassen – will also leave the house, but not for temporary solutions. If you want to visit the Café Opera or the Opera Cellar, you simply have to wait until the renovation work is completed.
– We are suspending operations. The renovation was said to take between three and five years. We hope so. But you know how it is with renovations, it can take time, says Oscar Durling, CEO of AB Operakällaren.
The reason they don’t do it The relocation of the business to temporary premises is because the restaurants are so closely linked to the opera, says Durling.
– It is difficult to move the Opera Bar, Back Pocket or Opera Källar. There are incredibly unique spaces and activities that seem to belong to this place in many ways.
Around 80 people work in and with the restaurants in the opera house, even more in high season, and we now want to find new jobs for them within the Nobis Group.
– We are part of a large group and our goal is to be able to offer continued employment to as many people as possible. But people are not serfs, but can decide what they want to do in the future.
Will all restaurants be revived then?
– We will be involved in these works during the renovation period. We’ll see exactly which suit we open in next, I can’t really say much about that at the moment.
